Hugging Face and VirusTotal: Building Trust in AI Models

VirusTotal and Hugging Face announced an integration that surfaces VirusTotal security scan results directly on Hugging Face, enabling users to assess risks in model files, datasets, and related artifacts before downloading. The post highlights growing AI supply chain threats (tampered models, unsafe dependencies, data poisoning, hidden backdoors) and notes supporting capabilities like Code Insight and tools for serialization formats (picklescan, safepickle, ModelScan), reinforcing a broader effort to make security intelligence more accessible to the community.